System tray.

Zack Rusin zack at kde.org
Sat Sep 21 06:35:09 BST 2002


On Saturday 21 September 2002 01:12, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Friday September 20, 2002 09:59, Zack Rusin wrote:
> > On Saturday 21 September 2002 00:49, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > > Apps like Kopete shouldn't be sending messages to the system
> > > tray. They should be using KNotify themesleves, like good KDE
> > > applications.
> >
> > heh, what about Gaim, or good Gnome applications that KDE users
> > want to use with our tray?
>
> They're going to make their own bubbles, too, if I read Havoc
> correctly:

Yes, that's the compromise between interporability and flexibility.

>
> On Friday September 20, 2002 08:34, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Note, this spec is not final; in particular the "message balloon"
> > stuff was going to come out because people wanted to make their own
> > balloons instead of having the tray do it. (I still like the
> > balloons being done in a single consistent place, but there wasn't
> > good consensus.)
>
> And even if this weren't the case, what's the point of the standard
> if only the GNOMEs are going to use it?  KNotify is just so much more
> flexible that KDE apps can't give it up.

ACK. 

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